The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1887-04-07
COLUMN.
HELEN A. DAVIS, LOWELL CLYDE,
Editor. Assistant.

Editor. Assistant.
The first public library in America was
founded in New York in 100.
There has been established in Cincinnati a
college for the exclusive education of women
in medicine.
One hundred and fifty of the three hum
bred and sixty-five colleges in this country
publish papers.
The school entertainment, last Friday
evening, was well attended, and we hope
gave satisfaction.
Leyden University. in Holland, is the
richest i'm the world. Its real estate alone is
said to be worth 100000.
A Washington paper says that Colonel
Lamont, President Cleveland's private sec
rotary, denies that the Presidents health is
failing.
J.. A. BOstwick, of New York. has present
ed the Wake Forest College in North Caro-
lima, with $4,000, in addition to $4,000 Civ
en- some time ago.
at Cornell University, $4,000 have been
raised, chiefly by the students, to erect a
Christian Association building. 1t is the
largest college association of the kind in the
world.
John G. Sake, the famous poet and lectur-
er, died at his home in Newbury, N. Y,
March 31st. He has lived in retirement for a
number of years. He was II years old.
General Wallace never saw Syria until af-
ter "Ben-Hur" was completed. He prepar-
ed for the work by reading books of history,
travel, manner and customs; talked with
friends who had seen the country, and wrote
with a large map of it hanging OF the wall
before him.
We take the following from the State
Journal:
New YORK, April LA Washington spec
city who has had a special interest in the
condition of eX-Secretary Manning's health
has received personal advices from England
confirming the worst reports yet published.
His informant asserts that the eX-Secretary
was not only not improved by his voyage,
but decidedly worse to-day than he was be-
fore he sailed, worse even than when he land
ed in England. His friends have little hope
of his recovery.
The following lines were cut from a paper
some years ago. We do not know the au-
thor's name but think they deserve a place
in an educational column:
A TEACHERS DREAM.
Saturday night, and a teacher sat
Alone, her task pursuing;
She averaged this and she averaged that
Of all her class were doing;
She reckoned percentage, so many boys,
And so many girls all counted,
And marked all the tardy and absentees,
And to what all the absence amounted.
Names and residence wrote in full,
Over many columns and pages;
Yankee, Teutonic, African. Celt,
And averaged all their ages;
The date of admission of every one,
And cases of fiagellation,
And prepared a list of the graduates
For the coming examination.
Her weary head sank low on her book,
And her weary heart still lower,
For some of her pupils had little brain.
And she could not furnish more.
She slept, she dreamed; it seemed she died,
And her spirit went to HadeS,
And they met her there with Il question fair,
Estate what the per cent. of your grade is"
ages had slowly rolled away,
Leaving but partial traces,
And the teachers spirit walked one day
In the old familiar places.
A mound of fossilized school reports
Attracted her observation,
AS high as the State House dome, and as wide
AS Boston and annexation.
'.She came to the spot where they buried her
bones,
And the ground was well built over,
But laborers digging threw out q skull
Once planted beneath the clover.
A disciple of Galen wandering by,
Paused to look at the diggers,
And plucking the skull up, looked thro' the
eye,
And saw it was lined with figures.
'Just as l thought" said the young NJ. D.,
How easy it is to kill EN-
Statistics ossified every fold,
Of cerebrum and cerebellum:
Its a curiosity, sure said Pat,
"By the bones can you tell the creature?'
"Oh, nothing strange" said the doctor, that
Was a nineteenth century teacher"